Calibrate Dell U2711 to Macbook/iOS standard

[Exavion]

Hi all. I do a ton of design for iOS at work, and my rMBP 13'' has been great for it - especially because the screen emulates the color profile of an iPhone/iPad rather accurately.

My request for a Thunderbolt display was not met, rather they gave me a Dell u2711 - which has a wider color gamut and anti-glare coating. The colors look very different on this monitor, after I drag things from my rMBP display. I tried changing the settings on it a bunch and calibrating with the OS X utility, but I keep getting odd hues or over-saturation on colors where the macbook and iPhone do not. I'd like to calibrate it to match the color profile of a Mac screen.

Does anyone know the best way I can achieve this, or has anyone tried it before?

 

[priitv8]

Does anyone know the best way I can achieve this, or has anyone tried it before?

I would start with a hardware colorimeter.
This frenchman's site is one of the clearest descriptions of the problem and solution: Monitor calibration colorimeters on the market

 

[mfram]

I own this monitor. There is a specific setting in the monitor menu to set it to the Mac OS color standard. I recommend turning that setting to Mac.

 

[Exavion]

Thanks, yes that's the Gamma value. The colors still come out much different than iOS or Mac screens show them, but I got it close enough I think. I might ask for one of those calibrators, but the thing is - I don't actually want accurate color reproduction, I just want it to match the Mac and iPhone (which don't reproduce colors very accurately) I may be stuck with fiddling all the calibrations manually - but I was hoping someone might have a profile I could start with!